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Show f Olive Trees and Taxes Many years ago, when the Balkan province of Macedonia was a center ol contention among Turks, Bulgars and Greeks, the Turks, in possession posses-sion at the time, set out to make the province unattractive to rival nationalities. na-tionalities. They adopted the device ol putting up taxes on olive orchards to the point that forced the unfortunate unfortu-nate owners of olive orchards to cut them down. As olive growing was an Important industry, the trick worked. " |